[Foundation-l] [Announcement] New Head of Business Development: Kul Wadhwa

Sat Jan 5 03:36:12 UTC 2008

Fair enough. But just for my own personal clarification, can I get a copy of the
Foundation's IRS forms 990 and 1023 for the past two years? I'd like to look
over them myself, as I am not sure that the Foundation /can/ in fact support
such a large staff.

Chad H.

On Jan 4, 2008 9:48 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Casey Brown wrote:
> > We've already begun expanding: the job openings have already been
> > posted, we've already moved the office.  These are more "done-deals"
> > that I am sure Anthere would have taken into account when saying what
> > she did.  I could be wrong, of course.
> >
> > On Jan 4, 2008 9:04 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Doesn't mean we have enough money to suddenly start expanding the staff.
> >> Just means the lights aren't going dark for another year. Enough money to
> >> sustain and enough money to expand are two different things.
> >>
> >> Chad H.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 4, 2008 8:58 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Maybe see this might give a little insight?
> >>>
> >>> <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Summary_of_a_year-_2007>, 5th line:
> >>>
> >>> "We successfully were able to collect enough funds to run through the
> >>> year, whilst retaining our independence;"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 4, 2008 8:50 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is great and all Sue, but I'd love to know how we're financing
> >>>> all this. I mean,
> >>>> the fundraiser did great, but not quite as high as we'd like. Things
> >>>> like keeping the
> >>>> servers online would be a slightly higher priority in my book.
> >>>>
> >>>> But maybe that's just me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chad
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
> Yeah, it's a reasonable question, Chad. And the answer is pretty simple:
> the purpose of hiring a biz dev person is to make money. That role
> creates revenue, it is not a net cost.
>
> All the initial hires fall into one of two categories: they are either
> basically core & essential (we cannot function without, for example, an
> accountant). Or they are revenue-generating (e.g., the biz dev position,
> the fundraising position).
>
> I certainly aspire, later, to be able to expand into hiring people whose
> work will be more directly mission-focused - for example, people to
> create distribution partnerships with other non-profits, or people to
> support community members who want to write grant proposals. But the
> priority obviously needs to be the core stuff.
>
>
>
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